Donald K. Carey: Social engineering is not the best way to fix everything

When I complain of obscenity, vulgarity, degradation and pornography in the media, I am told I do not have to listen. I can just switch the channel or station.

The media is quick to air any mass killing or insane act in order to garner an audience. It seems they do not grasp that the glorification and portrayal of unbalanced murderers serves to excite and incite others who are borderline disturbed.

Now, of course, guns kill people, right? No gun has ever killed anyone. People use guns to kill people.

Crazy people use guns to kill people because they are convenient and the victims do not have a gun to defend themselves.

Why stop with guns? Let's ban all implements that can kill people. Or better yet, my liberal, leftist destroyers of the right to "protect" ourselves, just make a law stating that people cannot be crazy.

It seems making laws - social engineering - is the answer to all our problems. There are millions of people. It is inevitable that a percentage of them will do the unthinkable. So just make a law that says they don't exist.

Without guns, there are bombs, pressure cookers, Molotov cocktails and a myriad other methods to kill people. Why, maybe, they might wear a vest.

No, there is no logic to what our enlightened elitists are now forcing upon us in the name of political correctness and moral superiority.

Donald K. Carey

Salisbury

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Donald K. Carey: Social engineering is not the best way to fix everything